Black Projects, White Knights is a collection of short stories by American writer Kage Baker, published by small-press science fiction publisher Golden Gryphon Press, assembling various short stories set in the universe of The Company series, which comprises the bulk of her published fiction.
Note: not all of the Company stories extant at the time of publishing were collected into this volume.
The basis for much of the backstory is that the time travel technology is too expensive and risky for this.
In "Monster Story", Alec Checkerfield "helps" another boy to answer the test questions, resulting in that boy being committed to a "special" school for those with deviant psychological profiles.
In a later story a character, who is apparently that boy grown up, leads the Company's "Adonai" project, which results in the birth of Alec Checkerfield.